Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair.
Product Information
A newly repackaged edition of a classic Vargas Llosa novel.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 0.317
- : April 2012
- : 198mm X 126mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : August 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 416
- : Main
- : Paperback
- : Mario Vargas Llosa